10 largest architectural projects on the planet

With creativity without borders, architects always make us surprised to overcome the seemingly unbreakable limits.

Architectural projects that make you "surprised"

1. The megacity is larger than many countries combined (China)

Jing-Jin-Ji is a project that links the three cities of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei into a giant megacity that can accommodate around 130 million people and nearly half of the world's countries. . With an estimated area of ​​212,000 km2, Jing-Jin-Ji is equivalent to Kansas State, USA. It also covered the larger surface and contained more people than Austria and Greece combined. Each city in the project Jing-Jin-Ji plays a special role. Beijing is the center of culture and technology. Tianjin will focus on manufacturing. Hebei develops smaller industries. The speedboat network will connect each city of the megacity with travel time in just one hour and is expected to be put into use in 2020.

2. Super speed train connecting San Francisco - Los Angeles (USA)

Billionaire Elon Musk never caused a stir with the construction of a super speed train named Hyperloop, including a vacuum piping system. With a speed close to the speed of sound, Hyperloop will help you go from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 35 minutes compared to an hour's time if traveling by plane. In May 2015, a construction company in California was licensed to build a test track. They had just agreed with landowners along the interstate 5 to start construction. The construction of the test train will begin in 2016 and if successful, Hyperloop may be ready to go into operation in early 2025.

3. Canal cut across the continent (Nicaragua)

77 km long, the Panama Canal is currently one of the largest buildings of all time. However, the architects started construction of a three-times longer building and twice as deep as the Panama Canal. At a cost of $ 50 billion, the Chinese billionaire Wang Jing invested, the canal project will open a waterway across Nicaragua . The construction of the Nicaragua Canal requires moving more than 4.5 billion cubic meters of land, enough to bury the Manhattan Island in New York , USA . It will also completely reverse the nation's ecosystem in Central America by leveling four natural parks as well as running through Lake Nicaragua, the region's largest freshwater lake. As expected, the ships can run through this canal in 2019. The green line on the map showing the Nicaragua Canal in the red line is the border between Nicaragua (upper) and Costa Rica (below).

4. Huge solar farm (Tunisia)

Aiming to exploit 0.3% of the total solar energy flowing into the Sahara desert , Nur Power has just launched a proposal by the end of 2014. Accordingly, the amount of electricity collected through the solar farm is wide. 100 km2 in Tunisia is enough for Europe to use all year. It is expected to be built in 2018, including a scattered installation of thousands of computer-controlled solar panels over three times the area of Macau . These panels will be used to heat a central tower, creating steam to run turbines for electricity generation. Electricity will run through a 450-kilometer underground cable to a transfer station in Italy and into Europe.

5. Artificial mountains taller than 2,000 meters (Netherlands)

Thijs Zonneveld, a Dutch journalist, initiated the idea of ​​building an artificial mountain in the country just 323 meters above sea level. With the support of many experts and organizations, Hoffers & Kruger Architects started designing a high mountain of more than 2,000 meters and assembled a team of engineers to assess the feasibility. Dubbed "Die Berg Komt Er " ("The Mountain Comes"), this project will last for 30 years and cost between US $ 60 and 420 billion. Once completed, the mountain will include swimming pools, cinemas, sports complexes and a separate water supply.

6. Skyscrapers in Mecca (Saudi Arabia)

In the past few years, Saudi Arabia has always focused on building the Middle East's ancient city of Mecca into Las Vegas, the focus of this change is the groundbreaking Abraj Kudai project . As a super 5-star hotel overlooking the entire city, Abraj Kudai has 45 floors. On the top floor is the world's largest Muslim-style dome, surrounded by 4 heliports. The other 5 floors are reserved for the use of the Al-Soud royal family. The rest of the building houses 10,000 bedrooms and more than 70 high-class restaurants. The last floor is the commercial center, conference center and ballroom. At £ 2.3 billion (USD exchange), Abraj Kudai will become the world's largest hotel when completed in 2017.

7. Aerial city (China)

Preparations are underway to build a megacity in Shenzhen, China. Named Cloud Citizen , the project consists of three interconnected towers over 2 km2, approximately the size of the kingdom of Monaco. However, the most impressive thing about this project is Cloud Citizen designed to act as a "city in the city. " Besides the office and housing areas, the building also has farms and land. trees, food production centers and means to collect rainwater. It also produces electricity that combines natural energy sources such as wind, sun and algae, helping Cloud Citizen exist independently in Shenzhen.

8. Smart city (India)

Dholera is one of the largest new infrastructure projects of the Indian government and can be ready to operate within a decade. As part of the US $ 90 billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor plan, Dholera was built on renovated land and aims to create a traffic-free, pollution-free, waste-free environment. through digital operation. Every family here is connected to the Internet. To help solve India's overcrowding, Dholera will be twice the size of Mumbai.

9. Artificial islands (Azerbaijan)

Located on the Caspian Sea , off the Azerbaijan capital of Azerbaijan, Khazar Islands is a project to build an artificial archipelago of 55 independent islands with a private airport, yacht club, Formula 1 racetrack. and thousands of apartments for 800,000 people. The largest island is also home to the Azerbaijan Tower , which is expected to be the tallest building on Earth. The project cost an estimated US $ 100 billion in 2013 and comes from the idea of ​​billionaire Ibrahim Ibrahimov on a flight. Khazar Islands is currently under construction and a mountain has been leveled to get the stone for the foundation.

10. New Silk Road (China)

The Chinese government is planning to restore the famous Silk Road through the "One Belt, One Road," scheme that combines a land trade route with a new commercial area on the sea via road, railway and pipe. When completed, this 10,000-kilometer-long road will bring China the influence that extends from Xian city to Moscow (Russia) and Rotterdam (Netherlands), larger than the distance between New York and Buenos Aires. Not only combining China, India and Russia on the most important economic corridor on the planet, this plan also connects China with the rest of Asia and East Africa through port construction projects. At the seaside. The dark dashed line represents the economic belt of the new Silk Road while the light colored line indicates the sea route.